I searched up “Lemmy” on the PlayStore and noticed that Reddit appears right before the last lemmy client in that search X3 do u guys know if there r any other lemmy clients worth trying? I randomly felt like trying all I could find and for now I’ll stay on Jerboa and the Web UI but I use Voyager too now, mainly for DMs
Edit: I apparently wasn’t clear enough but I was asking for OTHER clients that aren’t on this list X3 but feel free to share why u use an app in this list if u want anyway :3
I use sync and I used it when it was a reddit app. It was funny to join Lemmy while hating on sync was trendy.
I use sync too but I wish the developer actually seemed to give a fuck. Seems he took all the initial money and bounced. I know he comes and goes but people pay for this app and it should be maintained properly.
Which is why even though I left Reddit because of Sync I didn’t buy it again at the now much higher price. I got used to Jerboa before Sync was ready, and it’s almost as good (for my use anyways) and free.
Way back when it released I said that the dev was charging so much upfront that he probably doesn’t expect lemmy to take off. He even responded to my comment saying he was going all in. I guess I was right in the end.
He left for months at a time with Reddit too, always citing some personal troubles. When he quit his full time job to work on Sync and still disappeared, my trust was very shaken.
I’m on sync… What are the issues? Also I think the team works on his sporadically, it’s not a main thing, more like a hobby thing.
There is no team and there is a bug tracker to see the list.
I think I remember people talking about Sync a lot but didn’t pay attention to that, why were they hating on it? I tried it yesterday and it seems pretty cool and has some neat features :3
I think a big part of the hate came from the fact that the developer was charging for a premium version. Lemmy is all about open source, power to the people kind of things, so I imagine this rubbed people up the wrong way. Plus it was a fairly popular reddit app, and people were hating on the reddit refugees as well.
ohhh I see, yeah I remember something like that, ty! :3
I use Thunder and previously I used Voyager. Both are amazing open source clients for Lemmy!
Definitely recommend Thunder, somehow it does swipe actions better than other clients I’ve tried (and the UI is very clean)
I think Thunder was my second-favorite the first time I was looking for a client! ye both r so great and pretty :3
I tried Thunder because of this post, it appears to be great so far
Sync is my favorite
Sync does look very neat yeah :3 Did it not have a premium version or something? or maybe it did at first? Did u pay for that or is/was the free version good enough?
The dev hasn’t updated it in a bit and it’s getting more broken for me, especially with loading certain image types. I did pay for ad free on it when it came out but I’m starting to get a bit frustrated with the issues lately.
You can pay 20$ to remove the ads from within the app. The ads never bothered me. I used to have Sync for Reddit and that one I had paid like $5 to remove ads. But I think the developer had stopped updating it for like a year before sync for Lemmy came out. Maybe not enough incentive
Been using Voyager for a while since jerboa would crash on startup, both are good but I think Voyager is my favorite now.
o damn, never happened to me but I hope they fixed that, I also had issues with two other clients that made them unusable and apparently other people didn’t X3
Do you remember RIF? And that time reddit forced all the third party apps to change their names by adding “for Reddit” at the end? So RIF changed the name to “RIF is fun for Reddit”, that is “Reddit if Fun is Fun for Reddit”. Good times.
RIF is short for RIF is fun, not Reddit is fun because at a different point in time, Reddit didn’t want other clients to have the word reddit in their name.
RIF is fun is fun for Reddit, then?
Still better than DC comics’ Detective Comics.
Omg I didnt know about the “for Reddit” thing, that’s hilarous X3
At some point there was like twenty of ‘for Reddits’ on Google Play. Before, you know, the dark times.
GRRRR >:C
Its sad that apps build on foss services which pushes ad and tracking have more downloads than better foss apps
Yeah I hate when that happens… I used Boost for Reddit cuz I don’t remember why but I liked it way more than the others and oh well, it’s Reddit anyway X3 But using it for Lemmy felt silly now that I had an excuse to move to a more privacy-friendly alternative
was shocked to see boost and sync at 50 million downloads, but mil is just thousand in the language you were using haha
LMAO Srry about that X3 it confuses me too all the time cuz I usually have apps in English unless their main language is Spanish (so, always X3) but a few r in Spanish either cuz they wont let me change the language of just that app or I forgot to check if they do :p
I’ve only ever used Jeroba. It’s what I picked first and I like how it’s fairly simple and straightforward. I used Now For Reddit before the APIpocalypse and really liked that interface even if (or perhaps because) gif support never happened for that app. I’m open to trying something else though, especially if one has an easy crosspost feature.
Well this post’s comments have some neat suggestions! :D (tho that’s not what I was asking for, everyone is talking about the clients I already know X3 but that’s fine :3) So u could try those out and see if u like them :3
Also gif support didn’t occurr to me, I wanted to have a gif as my banner but it didn’t work at all, maybe that’s a Jerboa issue? And I can’t remember if gifs work in posts but I think u need to tap them to open them in fullscreen and then they start moving
Gif support isn’t a problem on Jeroba, that was just an issue with the Reddit app I was using.
Oh okie my bad X3 Also I keep seeing people saying “Jeroba” instead of “Jerboa”, is that an auto-correction thing or a common confusion? cuz I think I remember the same happening with a Reddit client LOL X3
Oops, I got auto corrected, but I think it’s common confusion too.
The Raccoon logo is awesome. 😎
Downloading now just because of that.
LOL U’re welcome X3 It looks pretty great but for some reason it’s super laggy for me?? If u tried it did u have the same issue? Like, everything I tap takes a second to open
No, feels quite snappy, although my phone isn’t the most recent at all.
Somehow it doesn’t keep me logged in, though. It is under active development, so I will see.
Really like the layout. Wish the threaded view were a bit clearer, maybe. Bit that’s no big deal.
Is there a (Lemmy) community for that app?There is a Lemmy community here:
Yeah I think that was an issue with my phone, I asked someone else and they also didn’t have that issue, and they didn’t mention a log-in problem so maybe we all have different bugs LOL X3 But yeah it does look pretty good :D And ye I think there’s a comm for every lemmy client :3
I was just thinking the same thing! I’m going to go download it now.
I use Voyager because it was the one with the latest update on F-Droid.
I do that a lot X3 but I couldn’t install Voyager from F-Droid, it gave me a 404 error? :<
Jerboah is also very recently updated.
Btw fdroid just builds the apps. It is often better to use the APKs from the release pages of github etc. so that you only need to trust the devs. It is also way better for security as FDroid uses the same signing key for every single app.
Obtainium works okay for that, you enter the URL and it finds a lot of sources. It is completely overcomplicated though.
I’m not sure I agree on the trust thing. I prefer to trust a single source of curated apps, rather than many individual developers. I like to imagine that f-droid would remove a malicious update before it gets to my phone.
Been pretty happy with Connect coming from RiF
RiF was one of the clients that just died when the API thing happened right? I remember people being sad about that :< Oh well, glad u found a new home in Connect and Lemmy! :>
I think it’s funny that Connect is in third place with a 5.0 rating and 10 million downloads, and yet nobody talks about it the way they do Jerboa and Sync and Voyager.
It’s a great, simple client. No ads. Totally free.
ye LOL X3 I guess there’s just less Connect users here for whatever reason, also maybe there’s more people talking about Jerboa and Voyager cuz I mentioned them in the post’s content
i use eternity. it looks good is pretty customizable and has all the features i want :3
Ye Jerboa is kinda lacking :< but it’s the best-looking for me and a pretty app is a great app! :3
I use eternity because it’s made from infinity
Oh ye, many just kept using the client they used in Reddit, very cool of the developers for moving over to lemmy and inviting their users to do the same :3
They didn’t move, it’s a fork
Oh well, still nice that the others did and that Eternity exists X3
Pity it has a weird bug where I’m unable to load any user’s profile/posts/comments. It just kinda shows with no activity. I’m in Jerboa for now
Redo the login
I’m a huge Boost fan.
That’s what I used in Reddit! :D
btw I recommend not sorting by Top or Old in this post X3
